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Ready to Rumble
Movie Stats & Links |
| Starring: |
David Arquette,
Oliver Platt, Scott Caan, Diamond Dallas Page, Bill Goldberg |
| MPAA Rated: |
PG-13 |
| Released By: |
Warner
Bros
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| Web Site: |
www.readytorumble.net
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| Kiddie Movie: |
Your young wrestling fans will drag you kicking
and screaming, but there are a lot of scantily clad
women and some bad language. Hey, wait, you
let them watch it on TV, I guess this isn't much
different.
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| Date Movie: |
If she wants to come along, God bless her.
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| Gratuitous Sex: |
Some dude's butt.
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| Gratuitous
Violence: |
It's wrestling violence.
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| Action: |
Nah.
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| Laughs: |
Some chuckles and groans.
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| Memorable
Scene: |
The triple cage match.
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| Memorable
Quote: |
Jimmy King asks at one point: "What's she gonna
do, boob him to death?"
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| Directed By: |
Brian Robbins
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| Produced By: |
Bobby Newmyer, Jeffrey Silver
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Ready to Rumble
A Movie Review |
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As I was watching "Ready to Rumble" I thought to myself,
especially during the initial wrestling sequences, that
wrestling-wise, it was more entertaining, as well as better
done, on TV. The filmmakers should have, if they didn’t
(it didn’t look as such) enlist the help of the
producers of WCW’s Nitro or WWF’s Smackdown to
help in shooting the wrestling sequences. They came off as
flat, they came off as cheap, and they weren’t very
entertaining. And that’s not telling anything else
about the movie. So let’s do that.
"Ready to Rumble" gives us two wrestling die-hards in the
likes of Gordie (David Arquette) and Sean (Scott Caan). They
believe wrestling is real (which the movie oddly enough does
it’s best to show some of the fake aspects of
wrestling), that their hero, Jimmy King (Oliver Platt) is
unbeatable, and go on living their lives sucking sewage
(they run a septic service). Then, one day, their hero
loses, they crash their truck, and left jobless they figure
it must be their destiny to get Jimmy King to get the
championship belt back. On a cross country trek with a group
of nuns, they find Jimmy, work to get him back on track, and
find themselves in Vegas for a triple cage match for the
championship belt and a million dollars. Yea, so, the movie
has little to do with reality, but so what. Yes, I can
suspend reality about the story, hell, I suspend reality
when I watch wrestling, but it took too long for the movie
to become entertaining, and not that I don’t like
Oliver Platt as an actor, they might have just been better
off using a real wrestler in his place – they can at
least act the wrestling part. And that was too bad.
The jokes were silly, like Sal, the old wrestler, played
by Martin Landau, able to beat the crap out of everyone who
came at him, or Sasha (Rose McGowan), one of the dancing
girls, wrestling Gordie in the bedroom, or the van-load of
nuns singing Van Halen’s "Running With the Devil.". And
I could get past that. But I wanted entertaining wrestling
and that didn’t come until the final match. Maybe I
shouldn’t have wanted that.
So, this review is kind of hodge-podge, but you know
what, so was the movie. With that, it’s rating time.
The movie is pretty stupid, the acting, well, pretty bad
(except for, well, the real wrestlers – they were
better actors than most of the rest of the cast), and I was
going to only give the movie one star. But there was the
scene of the dancing girls in the dressing room, there was
the excellent triple cage match, and in the end "Ready to
Rumble" was most of what I expected it to be. I’ll give
it 2 ½ stars out of 5.
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the
Right!! L8R!!! |
